{"id":4323,"date":"2009-02-06T05:08:00","date_gmt":"2009-02-05T23:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.indiauncut.com\/?p=3261"},"modified":"2009-02-06T05:08:00","modified_gmt":"2009-02-05T23:38:00","slug":"the-offing-offence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indiauncut.com\/the-offing-offence\/","title":{"rendered":"The Offing Offence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Binand Sethumadhavan writes in:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Re <i>ToI&#8217;s<\/i> <a href=\"\/family-matters-and-noodle-straps\/\" title=\"Family Matters And Noodle Straps\">proofreading practices<\/a>: Today&#8217;s (5\/2\/09) Hyderabad print edition of <i>ToI<\/i> has an article on page 16 titled &#8220;Google&#8217;s latest offing: Mobile tracking system&#8221;. Is it that they really didn&#8217;t know the difference between &#8220;offing&#8221; and &#8220;offering&#8221;?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The question, for me, is not whether they <i>know<\/i> the difference, but whether they <i>care<\/i> that there is one. If the editor in charge of that edition is reading this, is he feeling bad because the mistake was made, or because the mistake was caught? That&#8217;s the question.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Binand Sethumadhavan writes in:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Re <i>ToI&#8217;s<\/i> <a href=\"\"\/iublog\/article\/family-matters-and-noodle-straps\/\" title=\"Family Matters And Noodle Straps\">proofreading practices<\/a>: Today&#8217;s (5\/2\/09) Hyderabad print edition of <i>ToI<\/i> has an article on page 16 titled &#8220;Google&#8217;s latest offing: Mobile tracking system&#8221;. Is it that they really didn&#8217;t know the difference between &#8220;offing&#8221; and &#8220;offering&#8221;?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The question, for me, is not whether they <i>know<\/i> the difference, but whether they <i>care<\/i> that there is one. If the editor in charge of that edition is reading this, is he feeling bad because the mistake was made, or because the mistake was caught? 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